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In tbe universe tbere is notbing 
great but man ; in man tbere is 
notbing great but mind." 

Sir William Hamilton 



PREFACE 

"Yet I doubt not through the Ages one increasing 
purpose runs, 
And the thoughts of men are widened with the 
process of the suns." 

7V /I AN fell and became subservient to 
physical law when blinded by the 
cloud of ignorance; he will regain his 
freedom when illuminated by the sun of 
Intelligence. 

The same power that has forced the 
race up through the various kingdoms to 
where it now stands must, in an unbroken 
line, continue in the future as in past, lift- 
ing it to still greater and loftier heights. 

In the constitution of man two cross 
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currents of emotion circulate — one ani- 
mal, the other spiritual. 

Through physical sense flows the ani- 
mal, and while on this plane we are sub- 
ject to the laws of the material kingdom 
— the mortal. 

When awakened to consciousness of 
the higher self through which the spir- 
itual circulates, a plane has been attained 
where it is possible to dominate and 
overcome the lower by the higher. At 
this point the God in man assumes the 
sovereignty, manifesting God-like pow- 
ers and the reign of spirituality over ma- 
teriality begins. 

Everlasting life in the physical body 
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is far from desirable, but man ought to 
live longer than three-score-and-ten. 
His capacities should not be limited by 
time and owing to wisdom, gained from 
experience, the faculties instead of be- 
coming weaker with increasing years 
should grow stronger. 

Through the understanding of spiritual 
law and its power over the material, man 
should continue in both physical and 
mental vigor so long as he uses the body 
as an habitation. 

The point is now reached in evolution 

where we should rise in the higher current 

and by placing ourselves in harmony with 

it, cast off the old animal laws to which 

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we have been subject, governing - instead 
of being governed by our organisms. 

In treating a subject, at once so subtle 
and intricate, it is next to impossible not to 
repeat and at times seem contradictory. 

The aim has been, however, to sim- 
plify so as to be understood by the mass 
of people who have never investigated 
the subject, and if the fragment of 
thought presented in the pages of this 
little book is the means of reflecting a 
ray of light across the sunless path of 
some sense-bound mortal the object shall 
have been accomplished. 

Havilah Squiers. 
Chicago, III. 



" Discover what will destroy life and you 
are a great man ! What will prolong it and 
you are an imposter ! " — Bulwer Lytton. 

YC/v/lTH the exception of death, there 
^ is nothing to which the human 

heart yields so unwillingly as to old age. 
And notwithstanding the fact that every- 
thing in Nature points to it as a law 
immutable, nevertheless, man has in all 
ages believed that somehow there is a 
way out of it, and has never abandoned 
the search for an Elixir that would pro- 
long life and perpetuate youth. 
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Ponce de Leon was in quest of this 
fountain of youth when he discovered 
fair Florida. 

The ancients believed that such a 
remedy existed and searched for it under 
the name of Alchemy. 

Paracelsus, one of the greatest and 
most highly illuminated minds of the 
fifteenth century, made a life study of 
the subject. He held that a universal 
solvent existed capable of at once trans- 
muting the baser metals into gold and 
silver, and prolonging life indefinitely. 

Bulwer Lytton, in his " Zanoni," treats 
of the art, and occultists claim that the 
book contains more fact than fiction. 
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Not long since, we remember, a for- 
eign doctor claimed to have discovered 
a panacea that would perpetuate youth, 
and as he was a scientific man of no little 
reputation, the announcement, for a time 
attracted widespread attention — antici- 
pation running high, the heart bounding 
with hope, only to be again blasted with 
"failure." 

Thus it becomes apparent that of all 
desires in the breast of man, the one 
most deeply rooted is the wish to con- 
tinue in life, and health, and youth; while 
on the contrary, the greatest dread and 
detestation are felt for their opposites, 
death, disease and decrepit old age. 
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These last named, have indeed, al- 
ways been looked upon as the greatest 
enemies of human happiness. Yet at 
the same time, while regarding them as 
inevitable ( because the decree of God 
Himself), still, the history of the race 
develops the fact that man, in all times, 
has resisted their approach with might 
and main and to the utmost limit of his 
intelligence. 

He has even been depicted as selling 
his soul to Satan for the sake of youth, 
as in the story of Faust. 

The Supply Exists. 

Now, this desire which is universal in 
the human heart, this longing for a life 
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on earth freed from limitations from dis- 
ease, decay and the infirmities of old 
age, this insatiable craving - for eternal 
life, eternal youth, eternal beauty, is the 
strongest evidence — may we not say 
evidence conclusive?— that somewhere in 
the great storehouse of nature there does 
exist a supply capable of satisfying this 
yearning, of supplying this demand. 

" In the heart of man a cry; 
In the heart of God supply " 

The great law of nature is supply and 
demand. Hunger for food, thirst for 
knowledge and the cry for love are all 
human demands, and whether they be 
satisfied or not, the supply, adequate to 
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their requirements exists; the only essen- 
tial to the realization of the desire being 
effort in the right direction. 

Once a party of men, shipwrecked at 
sea, tossed hither and thither at the 
mercy of the waves, having lost their 
means of reckoning, had, without know- 
ing it, floated into fresh water. Imagin- 
ing themselves in the briny ocean, they 
were famishing- from thirst. Hailing a 
passing vessel, they shouted, " Send us 
water, we are dying ! " The Captain re- 
plied, " Throw your buckets overboard ; 
you are in fresh water." 

Here these men were in the midst of 
fresh water, but did not know it, were 
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famishing and would, undoubtedly, have 
died had they not been enlightened. So 
long as they remained in ignorance of 
their true situation, there was no fresh 
water for them, and the result was ex- 
actly the same as if they had been in salt 
water. 

That for lack of which they were 
dying was right at hand, surround- 
ing them, but in order to partake of it 
they must first be made conscious not 
of its existence alone, but of its immed- 
iate presence. This gained, it only re- 
mained to exercise individual effort in 
the method of acquiring and appro- 
priating. 

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]VIan a liittle World. 

From the fact that man is born with 
an appetite that craves water, its correl- 
ative must necessarily follow that there 
is water to satisfy the craving. We en- 
ter the world with an inherent thirst for 
water ; water exists, hence it is logical to 
infer that water is provided by the Uni- 
versal Intelligence to quench thirst. 

In like manner the human being enters 
the world with a desire for prolonged 
life unattended by decay. His demand 
is not satisfied, consequently he fades 
and dies. ' 

Man from his inmost soul craves long 
life and lasting youth. Is it not as logi- 
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cal to infer that there is an Elixir which 
will satisfy this deathless demand, as 
that water exists to meet the demands 
of thirst? 

Life is everywhere; it is universal; and 
in hungering, fading, decaying- and dying 
for want of life, is our position unlike 
that of the castaways at sea who, in fresh 
water, were famishing and dying from 
thirst ? 

In a flood of fresh water, and dying 
for want of water ! In an ocean of life, 
fading and failing for want of life ! 

If ignorance were the cause of unful- 
filled desires in the one instance, is it, in 
any less degree, the cause in the other ? 
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It has been said that man is a micro- 
cosm of the macrocosm; a little world in- 
cluded in the great world, and as every 
element of the ocean is centered in one 
of its drops, so also is every element in 
the Universal Life (the great world) cen- 
tered in man, consequently every ele- 
ment in man has its counterpart in the 
Infinite Intelligence. 

This desire, then, for long life and con- 
tinued youth, interwoven as it is, into the 
very fiber of the soul, at once the most 
profound and the most pathetic in the 
world, must, necessarily, in accordance 
with the law of supply and demand, some- 
where in the universe have an answer. 
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That desire may be perverted it is 
true, but back of the perverted, or de- 
flected thought is the genuine; and it is 
only when the true has been discovered 
and the false, upon which hope has been 
based known to be counterfeit, that the 
response which permanently satisfies de- 
sire makes itself manifest. 

Thfee Seofe and Ten Too Short. 

Man was never so prosperous and at 
the same time never so dissatisfied as 
now. He is chafing under limitations ; 
realizes that he is fettered on every hand ; 
lives only long enough to learn a little, 
as how to live so as to enjoy the beauties 
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and benefits of the world, when in tones 
louder than utterance of human voice, he 
is informed that his days of usefulness 
and enjoyment are well nigh over. 

The truth is, man's world has become 
so vast, his vision so magnified, his 
demands at once so numerous and so 
large, that the little span of three score 
years and ten is insufficient for him. 

Seventy years, to the man who reck- 
oned time and space from horse-power, 
whose thoughts had not yet grown strong 
enough and broad enough to cross the 
ocean and circle the earth, seemed a very 
long life. 

Then, time moved along at the pace of 
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a snail, then the one who had jogged 
along and reached three score and ten 
was antiquated. He had seen about all 
it was possible for him to see; knew 
about all he was capable of knowing, 
the earth was so big and he so small 
and could know so little. God did not 
intend he should know much about this 
great, mysterious world. The Father, 
too, was so far away from him; but 
away up in Heaven, in the sky of blue, 
on a magnificent throne, sat the mighty 
potentate awaiting his coming. He was 
soon to o-o and be an anpfel, sit before 
the great white throne, listen to celestial 
music, sip milk and honey, walk the gold- 
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en streets and forever and ever do 
nothing, but just rest, and praise God 
and be happy. 

Good old days these, in which igno- 
rance was bliss! 

Alas, all this is changed. Heaven 
and the heavenly Father are not so far 
away now. Time and space are almost 
annihilated; the people of the uttermost 
ends of the earth are whispering to each 
other; the ocean has diminished till it is 
small; the globe itself is becoming less 
and less; but man has grown and is con- 
stantly increasing in stature. 

He is outgrowing the old earth and its 
mean little laws. 

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A new earth, yea, and a new heaven 
too, is unfolding to the nineteenth cen- 
tury man. 

He has commenced thinking — think- 
ing for himself; he recognizes reason; 
no longer considers himself a worm of 
the dust, nor an outlaw by an angry God 
accursed; no longer, dumb from fear, 
cowers before the awful majesty of a 
wrathful God, but with head erect declares 
himself man — one with the great whole, 
in which a place, by birthright belongs 
to him; and he demands (not begs) 
knowledge that will give him the key to 
the mysteries of nature, her forces, and 
consequent power over them. 
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And now that his eyes are open he 
will never cease till he puts forth his 
hand far enough to take hold " of the 
tree of life, and eat, and live forever." — 
Gen. iii. 22. 

Iiife May be Prolonged. 

Man is beginning- to suspect that his 
possibilities are limitless; that he was 
not made to serve but to govern every- 
thing, not the three lower kingdoms 
alone, but also the forces of the earth, 
included with the rest, his own body. 

There is nothing nowadays too holy 
for investigation; nothing too sacred for 
the telescope of science; no statement 
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(even from the mouth of Jehovah himself) 
so absolute as to prevent the awakened 
man from exacting a reason. 

Hence the demand for an answer to 
the question of questions: " Why is this 
deep-seated craving- for long life and 
lasting youth so persistent, and at the 
same time so persistently unheeded?" 
From what source does the wish come ? 
It cries out, alike, from the breast of 
every human being, is universal and 
therefore must, per force, emanate from 
one and the same cause. 

Reasoning by analogy, and in accord- 
ance with every line of reasoning known 
to man, there must be an elixir capa- 
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ble of satisfying this deathless desire. 
''Search and ye shall find." 

In "Zanoni" Condorcet is made to 
say: "There may be a deeper philoso- 
phy than we dream of — a philosophy that 
discovers the secrets of nature," 
"Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal, 
but it may be prolonged almost indefi- 
nitely." * * * " O, yes, to such a 
consummation does our age approach!" 
It is now conceded by deep thinkers 
that matter is homogeneous ; that all 
forms in nature, the mineral, the vege- 
table, the animal and the body of man 
are essentially of the same substance ; 
the difference being one of form only. 
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Between the rock of Gibralter and the 
flowers of Florida ; the giant trees of the 
Yosemite and the sands of the Sahara ; 
the cedars of Lebanon and the Iron 
Mountain ; the tiger of the jungle, the 
devil fish, grasses, fruit and foliage, the 
body of an ox and the body of a man, 
there is in essence, no difference. 

We might go still farther, including 
the waters, both fresh and salt ; and the 
very air we breathe, carrying every- 
thing material back to the four gases, 
oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, 
the elements constituting the atmosphere, 
the invisible source of all form, from the 
grain of sand up to physical man. 
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Happily for us, in this age of discovery 
we have something' more than theory 
upon which to base such statements. 

The Body Analyzed. 

Advanced chemistry proves many 
things which otherwise would be doubted 
and denied. 

At the present time in the National 
Museum stands a case containing the 
contents of the body of a man that 
weighed 154 pounds. 

This body, immediately after death, 
was handed over to the chemist who, 
passing it through his laboratory, re- 
solved it into its ultimate elements. 
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All of the man is in this case, except 
the subtle breath of life. 

The exhibit represents the thirteen el- 
ements of which our bodies are made — 
five erases and eight solid substances. 

The oxygen weighs ninety-seven 
pounds; the hydrogen fifteen pounds; 
the nitrogen three pounds and thirteen 
ounces; the calcium and chlorine re- 
spectively, four ounces. 

These are the gases of the body, 
which by careful estimate, have been 
shown to exist in such quantities as if set 
free would fill a space of about 4,000 
cubic feet, not at all unlike the gas burnt 
in our houses. 

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If the gases of a 154 pound man 
began to expand and expanded to their 
utmost, the man would fill a large hall — 
indeed, the Hall of Representatives, 
commodious as it is, could hold but a few 
men in the gaseous state. 

The solids of the body are represented 
first by a solid cube of charcoal, weigh- 
ing thirty-two pounds. (This is the car- 
bon taken from the body and converted 
into a black block.) 

Then one pound and twelve ounces of 
phosphorus and four ounces of sulphur, 
after which, nothing is left but metallic 
substances. The iron, weighing one- 
tenth of an ounce, appears in the form 
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of wire ; the calcium — basis of lime — a 
yellowish metal, shown in a square cube, 
weighs three pounds and thirteen ounces; 
a little silver hued block of magnesium 
weighing two ounces ; potassium, three 
ounces and the same quantity of sodium, 
and all that went to make up the body of 
a man weighing one hundred and fifty- 
four pounds stands revealed. 

fJo Iiife in Matter. 

The question is asked: " Why has 
this persistent craving for long life and 
lasting youth remained unheeded ? " 

Ask a school boy why the answer to 
an example, based on a false statement, 
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is incorrect, he will reply, "the figures 
are wrong in the beginning." 

After examining the contents of the hu- 
man body, as disclosed by this analysis, and 
then reflecting that it is upon these earthy, 
nonintelligent elements that we have been 
basing our beliefs in health and strength, 
yea, life itself, have we not the answer ? 

We have been trying to extract some- 
thing from nothing ; searching for life 
where there is no life ; centering hopes 
upon a premise that is without foundation. 

As night follows day, misery, disap- 
pointment and dissatisfaction follow the 
belief that life originates with or depends 
upon matter. 

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JVIind Perpetual JVIotion. 

The body apart from mind is lifeless ; 
it does not act, it is acted upon. 

It is a machine acted upon by an in- 
visible operator. To him must we look 
for results that satisfy and not to the ma- 
chine. This subtle agent is the cause of 
all energy and activity in the body — the 
life, the intelligence, the mind, the man. 

With this man, with him alone, must 
we deal in order to gain mastery over 
our bodies ; in order to overcome disease 
by health, old age by youth, death by 
life — in short, evolve from the lower to 
the higher ; subordinate the animal to 
the spiritual. 

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7"he word, man, is from the Sanscrit, 
manas, and means "The Thinker." 

Thinking- signifies not only activity, 
but intelligence, as well. 

Thought is incorporeal, invisible, in- 
divisible. As something cannot come 
from nothing, and as every effect must 
have a cause, we infer that back of the 
man, "The Thinker," there is an active 
principle ; and as an effect cannot be un- 
like its cause, we also, infer that this 
principle, this creative cause (of "The 
Thinker ") is mind. 

Mind is perpetual motion, and man, a 
thought of universal mind, is one with it, 
thought and mind being inseparable. 
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Mind is Infinite ; God is mind ; there is 
but one mind, this mind the fountain- 
head (without beginning- ; without end) 
of life, of health, of strength, of power, 
of perfection, of intelligence. 

As the sunbeam is included in the sun, 
so also, is man included in his source, 
universal mind ; — mind, ever vibrating 
through its thought, man. 

Mind is the active principle; the one 
and only cause of life; the spirit of intelli- 
gence breathing through all animated 
nature from the infinitesimal to im- 
mensity. 

We sprang from it, are in it, have ac- 
cess to it, but like the sailors thirsting in 
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fresh water, are dying for want of life be- 
cause of our ignorance. This is the 
creative principle spoken of in the Bible 
as " The Father" whom to know, is life 
eternal. 

Emerson caught this light when he 
wrote: " There is one mind common to 
all individual men. Every man is an in- 
let to the same and to all of the same. 
He that is once admitted to the right of 
reason is made a freeman of the whole 
estate. 

" Who hath access to this universal 
mind, is a party to all that is or can be 
done, for this is the only and sovereign 
agent." 

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Ignoranee Cause of OQisery. 

Buddha declared ignorance the cause 
of all misery in the world; and Jesus 
taught, emphatically, that through the 
understanding of truth alone, can libera- 
tion from bonds of the flesh be secured. 

Examining in this light, life and its 
manifold phases, discord, decay, pain 
and infirmity, exceptional genius is not 
required to the solving of the problem, 
as to "What is wrong in the world?" 
as to why our most ardent desires starve, 
why the heart is ever bruised, chilled and 
disappointed, why none find the satis- 
faction that the inmost soul craves. 

We are basing- our faith on a false 
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foundation — physical form, hence, the 
answer is always wrong; never satisfies. 
We have been looking for the "living 
among the dead.'' 

Whence Comes Evil. 

At this point the thought which natu- 
rally arises is: "If all life and thought 
originate with one and the same source, 
it being absolutely pure and perfect, 
where does disease and impure thoughts 
come from? " 

It is as impossible to conceive of 
truth creating error as it is to think of 
light producing darkness. 

If then, there be no life at all in the 
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body of flesh, and man is "The Thinker," 
connected inseparably with the all -per- 
fect mind, how is it possible for him to 
reflect an imperfect thought? " 

The real man, the Spiritual Thinker, 
who is one with the creative mind, does 
not think a thought other than Truth. 
It is as contrary to reason to imagine the 
ego thinking an imperfect thought, as for 
the sunbeam to reflect darkness. 

This Thought of Infinite Mind (Spir- 
itual man,; casts a shadow — a deflected 
thought; and like our image in the water, 
upside down, this shadow-thought re- 
verses every statement of truth; looks to 
the external, the objective, the material, 
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the form, for life and health and length 
of days; in short, counterfeits the true 
spiritual life and spiritual man. * 

St. Paul speaks of it as the carnal 
mind at enmity against God, not subject 
to the law of God, neither indeed can 
be ; so, they that are in this mind ol 
flesh cannot please God. 

It is the " mind of the flesh " believing 
flesh to be the basis of life; the corporeal 
man fashioning the body after his dis- 
eased and dying beliefs. 

The body, in and of itself, is nothing 
more than the canvas upon which the 
distorted thouo-ht-imao-es are thrown. 

Regarding the duality of life, the false 
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side and the true, the apostle says: 
" There is a natural body, and there is a 
spiritual body." * * * "The first 
man is of the earth, earthy ; the second 
man is the Lord from heaven." 

This mind of the natural body is the 
direct opposite of the mind of the spir- 
itual man, standing to the mind of Truth, 
as darkness to light. Of it Paul says : 
" In my flesh dwelleth no good thing." 

Jesus declared the mind of the flesh 
to be evil (the devil), "a murderer from 
the beginning and abode not in the truth, 
because there is no truth in him. When 
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his 
own ; for he is a liar and the father of it." 
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Of course the father of a lie is a lie. 
A false foundation is the parent of all 
statements emanating from it and noth- 
ing but error can spring from that which 
is not true. 

Chemistry has proven clearly and con- 
clusively that life neither originates with 
nor depends upon the fleshly form. The 
basic statement that life begins with and 
depends upon the form of flesh is the 
"father of lies/' sin, sickness, infirmity, 
old age and death being the offshoots, 
the children of this false father, as un- 
true as their source, and untrue because 
based upon that in which there is no 
truth, no life. 

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Let us not forget that a falsehood, so 
long- as believed in, produces precisely 
the same effect as if it were true. 

The Bible, from beginning to end 
in Oriental imagery, vividly portrays 
this false side of life, this transgression 
of the command, " Thou shalt have no 
other Gods before me." 

In the second chapter of Jeremiah we 
find : " Hath a nation changed their 
Gods, which are yet no Gods ; but my 
people have changed their glory for that 
which doth not profit. Be astounded, 
O ye heavens, at this and be horribly 
afraid ; be ye very desolate, saith the 
Lord. For my people have committed 
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two evils ; they have forsaken me, the 
fountain of living waters, and hewed 
them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that 
can hold no water at all." 

In the first chapter of Romans we 
find : " Professing themselves wise, they 
became fools, and changed the glory of 
the uncorruptible God into an image 
made like to corruptible man, and to 
birds, and four footed beasts and creep- 
ing things. * * * * " Who changed 
the truth of God into a lie, and wor- 
shipped and served the creature more 
than the creator, who is blessed forever." 

It is upon this " broken cistern," this 
" creature " (the corporeal organism) 
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that the human family has been basing 
its laws of life, with results so disastrous 
as to give rise to the oft repeated 
questions : " What is wrong- in the 
world?" "Is life worth living?" etc. 
Here is the answer as to what is wrong. 

Self-mesmerized. 

This diseased mind spoken of in 
Scripture as the "carnal mind," as the 
" mind of the flesh, " is what we know as 
animal magnetism, and the human family 
is really mesmerized by it into the belief 
of the so-called laws and limitations of 
matter and material form. 

We have said the real man is "The 
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Thinker," one with the universal mind ; 
that; Thought, being one with the Mind, 
can draw from it inexhaustible supplies; 
that this perfect Thought, (man, '*' The 
Thinker,") casts a shadow, a deflected 
thought. Rig-lit here is where "the 
mist " arose that mystified the senses into 
the belief that the man formed of the 
dust of the ground was the real man, the 
son of God, instead of the bodily instru- 
ment through which the son of the most 
high manifests himself. 

The physical Adam, of the earth, 

earthy, is the Garden of Eden which 

'The Thinker" was commanded "to 

dress" and "to keep;" with permission 

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to partake of every fruit, with the excep- 
tion "of the tree of the knowledge of 
good and evil (physical sense) thou 
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that 
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die:" 
and because thou hast eaten of this ma- 
terial tree, "in sorrow shalt thou eat of 
it all the days of thy life: thorns also and 
thistles shall it brino- forth to thee:" 

# * * * * 

" In the sweat of thy face shalt 
thou eat bread, till thou return unto the 
ground: for out of it wast thou taken: 
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt 
thou return." (Gen. ii and lii.) 

This is the utterance of Divine Wis- 
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dom, through the God-man, against the 
mind of physical sense, which is trans- 
gressing the law by turning from the true 
principle of life to the form, composed of 
the elements of the earth, worshiping 
the creature instead of the creator. 

An Angel and an Animal. 

There are two men in one, a fleshy 
man and a spiritual man ; an external 
and an internal man ; one who sickens, 
fades and dies, and one who never suf- 
fers, never fades and never dies ; one an 
angel, the other an animal — and to whom 
we yield ourselves servants, his servants 
we are. 

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In this connection Goethe puts into 
the mouth of Faust, in reply to the ma- 
terialistic philosopher, these words : 

" But in my heart, alas ! two souls reside, 
Each from the other tries to separate. 
One clings to earth with passions and desires 
And fond embrace ; the other breaks his bonds, 
And rising upward, spurns the dust of earth." 

This duality of mind, and the line of 
demarcation between the two, is the 
most subtle question known to man. 
Upon this reef the staunchest ships have 
foundered. Jesus gave the key, but his 
followers lost it and substituted for the 
Science of Life which He taught, the 
doctrine that salvation is attainable only 
through the blood of the crucified man. 
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Salvation will never come through blood, 
but from the understanding - of truth. 
Through science the seeminp" will be 
separated from the real, the counterfeit 
from the genuine. 

Thought, the Basis of liife. 

Suffice here to say the basis of life 
is thought. Thought clothed in the 
atom, attracts to itself, as a magnet (by 
that law of affinity called in the natural 
world gravitation, in the spiritual, love) 
elements that correspond to itself. 
These atoms, drawn together, form the 
molecule, an aggregation of which builds 
the cell ; the cells, grouping around the 
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mental ima^e, till lo ! the form is ma- 
terialized, and a statue of flesh and blood, 
throbbing- with life appears. "The 
Thinker " has sculptured the statue after 
his own "image and likeness," galvanized 
it into life, and in his own work, the 
artist stands revealed. This is the 
temple in which " neither hammer nor ax 
nor any tool of iron " was heard during 
its building. 

Thought Pictures. 

Were the microscope sufficiently power- 
ful, the molecules under the vibrator)- in- 
fluence of thought, might be seen rush- 
ing through the physical frame as sands 

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through a seive ; every atom teeming 
with activity ; no two coming in contact ; 
all rushing onward through the body, a 
ceaseless tide, back of which " The 
Thinker,' like a silent spectator on the 
river brink, sits watching the whirling 
currents. 

This human instrument has been 
erected by "The Thinker" through 
which to manifest himself. Not unlike 
the electrician does he operate upon his 
battery, the brain, sending out over the 
nervous wires thought currents, impress- 
ing upon every atom a thought-picture, 
coloring it, and thus bringing out upon 
the organism his mental image ; the ex- 
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pression upon the physical frame corre- 
sponding to the impression held in 
thought ; the body, whether weak or 
strong, sick or well, crooked or straight, 
old or young, symbolizing its mental 
creator — the invisible workman. 

The body represents every shade of 
thought entertained, either consciously 
or unconsciously. As mist from the 
waterfall, when passing through certain 
slants of the sunbeam, takes on the dif- 
ferent hues of the rainbow, changing as 
it passes from yellow to green, from pink 
to purple, on to feathery fleece and dark 
grotesque shapes, so also do the mole- 
cules, under the vibratory ray of thought, 
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upon entering the body, assume the tint 
reflected upon them. 

This is why scars remain through life, 
though acquired in childhood, even after 
every particle has been changed over and 
over again. The mental impression is 
fixed and with mathematical certainty 
groups the molecules according to the 
invisible pattern, and thus always out- 
pictures upon the body the same image. 

The Body JSlever Old. 

It took many hundreds of years to find 
out that the earth did move and not until 
after the underpinning had been torn 
away and the earth went spinning in the 

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heavens did man begin to get free from 
the immovable mass and soar on invisible 
forces. Just so with the human body, 
when it was believed to be a solid lump, 
generating- life, it was folly to talk of 
interference with its laws; and every- 
thing, judging from the plane of sense, 
went to prove that it was just what it 
seemed to be. 

Any machine in constant use for fifty, 
sixty, or seventy years must necessarily 
break down — must wear out. But now, 
as in the case of the earth, science de- 
clares that every little atom of which the 
body is composed is in perpetual mo- 
tion, circling- through the organism, then 
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passing out to make room for new ones ; 
this flow going on incessantly until, the 
magnet ceasing longer to attract and 
hold in combination the particles, they 
separate, returning to the invisible ele- 
ments whence they came. 

Science had no sooner cut the roots 
that held the earth motionless than she 
took her flight for freedom and now that 
the same Emancipator is letting man 
loose from an earthy body, in which he 
has been so securely fastened, in no less 
degree is he destined to break away 
from physical limitations, soaring above 
and bringing under control elements not 
alone external to himself, but those also 
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included within his own organism, the 
body no longer a prison house holding 
in chains a tortured captive, but a palace 
presided over by a king. 

Homogeneity of CQattef. 

Science is Truth found out, and Science 
is the star that will ultimately lead us in- 
to satisfaction, liberty, peace and power. 
Upon reflection we see that the mole- 
cules composing the body must be in 
continual motion, because a cessation of 
activity signifies a cessation of life. Life 
is action. It is vibration. The thrill of 
the nerves, the circulation of the blood, 
are the result of thought vibration. 
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This ever moving condition of the mole- 
cule proves the homogeneity of matter, 
inasmuch as all molecules originally in 
the air, are constantly passing from one 
object to another, now in the wind, now 
in the wave, now in the flower, now in 
the animal, now in man. 

The molecules at this moment incor- 
porated in our organisms will, ere long, 
fly away and enter some other form. All 
the molecules going to make up our 
bodies have been used over and over 
again since the beginning of organic life 
on this planet; appearing alternately in 
plants and flowers, beasts and birds, 
savage and sage, beggars and princes. 
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The atoms entering the body of a 
child are not unlike those flowing- into 
the frame of an octogenarian; the differ- 
ence in the appearance of the two bodies 
— the one old age, the other youth — be- 
ing due, not to any real difference 
in the nature of the molecules them- 
selves, but to the mental pictures 
impressed upon them; the forms repre- 
senting with accuracy the images held by 
the respective thinkers. 

It cannot be said, scientifically, that an 
oro-anism i s ever old. The doctors used to 
say that the body passed through an en- 
tire change every seven years, now science 
says every few months, even less than that. 
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The Philosopher's Stone. 

As before stated that which animates 
and governs the body, absolutely, is 
thought. In order then to keep the 
physical frame healthy, the thought cur- 
rents reflected upon the molecules com- 
posing it must be pure ; free from discord 
and disease. 

The universal mind, before referred 
to as the true and only source of life, is 
pure and perfect, enduring and beautiful, 
the Principle of principles, the Truth of 
truths, the Law of laws, the Life of lives, 
and he who has awakened to the con- 
sciousness of being in harmony with this 
Principle, one with this Mind , merged in 
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this Eternal Source possesses the Philoso- 
pher's stone — the true Elixir of life. 
Such a one is in the highest sense of the 
term an alchemist, knowing- how to 
transmute the baser metal of the animal 
nature into the pure nature of spirit. 

The Great Essential. 

A clear understanding of the line of 
demarcation between the mind of the 
flesh and the mind of the spirit is the 
great essential. 

The demands of Principle are "ac- 
knowledge me," and they are impera- 
tive. 

In order to secure perfection in any- 
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thing the governing Principle must be 
understood and strictly adhered to. 

Deviation from Principle results in 
dissatisfaction, disease, discord, destruc- 
tion. 

In every instance is this true, in no 
less degree as applied to the Principle of 
life, nor is suffering less owing to igno- 
rance of Principle (or law), for the law 
makes no excuse for ignorance. 

Regardless of appearances, the Prin- 
ciple or source of life, in which there is 
no element of decay and from which in- 
exhaustible supplies of deathless life may 
be drawn, must be tenaciously adhered to. 

It must not alone be recognized as the 
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only source of life, but claimed as an 
heritage by birthright. 

With Paul, we must realize, know, 
that " we are debtors, not to the flesh, to 
live after the flesh. For if ye live after 
the flesh, ye shall die ; but if ye through 
the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the 
body ye shall live. * * * F r ye have 
not received the spirit of bondage to bear. 
* * * The Spirit itself beareth witness 
with our spirit that we are the children 
of God; and if children, then heirs." 

The thouo-ht that the form is not me 
but mine, the instrument through which 
"I," The Thinker, manifest myself, 
should be dwelt upon and cultivated. 
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Realizing this, a firm, unyielding stand 
to govern the instrument instead of being 
governed by it must be taken. 

In assuming this mental attitude, 
thought is polarized — turned from the 
corporeal to the spiritual. 

The physical laws to which we have 
been subject are now being reversed, 
with the result of health instead of dis- 
ease, strength instead of weakness, 
youth instead of old age, life instead of 
death. 

Thoughts pertaining to the negative 

side of life must be ruled out, not 

entertained at all. The moment we 

admit one, we open the door to the 

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whole host, and like black clouds, they 
rush in obscuring" the sunlight of per- 
fect life. 

These thoughts carry in their train all 
the laws of mortality, all the defective, 
diseased, decaying beliefs of the race, 
and when harbored they reflect upon 
the molecules the poisonous breath 
that at once begins to undermine the 
organism. 

Between these beliefs of the flesh and 
the thoughts of the spirit must the great 
struggle for real freedom take place, the 
true hero being the one that overcomes 
the enemy, the mind of the flesh. "Ye 
cannot serve two masters." 
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heredity. 

Based on the belief of material gen- 
eration is heredity, a noxious weed that 
must be uprooted. It carries with it the 
fallacies of the race. 

Our parents gave us not life, because 
life originated not with them. They 
gave us form ; clothed the spiritual idea, 
which was reflected through them. In 
this garment of flesh they sowed the 
seeds of their fleshly minds (race beliefs), 
sin, sickness, death and limitations of 
time. This is all we inherited from our 
mortal parents, every claim of which 
must be destroyed by the understand- 
ing of the truth of being, before a 
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larger ; broader and higher life can be 
attained. 

" Call no man your father upon the 
earth," said the Master, "for one is 
your Father which is in heaven." 

The idea that we are here on earth for 
a Pfiven time, that we are livine to grow 
old and die — "walking down to the 
grave" — is a pernicious one, and should 
not be tolerated. 

Life is Infinite, it is everywhere, it is 
centered in us, and we do not have to die 
to find it. We are in the Great Eternal 
ocean of life here and now. The thought 
upon which to anchor is " I am one with 
the Great Forever. Oh, God ! I am 
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one with thee ! " Schiller says, "Man be- 
comes immortal by living in the Whole!' 
We must now be living in the whole, 
because it is impossible to separate a 
part from the whole, but so long as we 
are ignorant of the fact the result is the 
same to us as if we were not : like the 
men in fresh water, although surrounded 
by it, dying of thirst because ignorant of 

its presence. 

Birthdays. 

Numbering years and keeping birth- 
days are mistakes. They constantly 
keep before the mind's eye the distance 
on the journey, emphasizing the impress 
of time. 

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Years carry with them the records of 
heredity, including" three score and ten, 
and forty, fifty, sixty, etc., register them- 
selves in the body with unfailing accu- 
racy. 

It were better if years were not re- 
corded. Instead, hold the thought of 
being in Eternity now. This breaks 
down the wall that has been built around 
us by a baseless law and we find our- 
selves in a life that is boundless. 

Grounded upon the Infinite Principle ; 
looking out over the shoreless ocean of 
life, with which we are one, and in which 
we now are, the prescribed boundary lines 
of time, cramping both body and faculties 
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into their narrow little measurement, give 
way and the impress of infirmity and 
decay (consequence of belief in increas- 
ing years) fades from the mind of flesh, 
as stains exposed to the actinic ray. 

In mind there is no space and thought 
is a subtle power, either for good or bad. 

In the enumeration of years we are 
not only sentencing ourselves, but in ac- 
cordance with mortal law are being by 
others, also, sentenced. 

The grand old men of to-day are hav- 
ing hard work to stand up against the 
tide of mortal thought which is being- 
turned upon them by the world, who, 
gauging their capacities by years, would 
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limit their achievements to less than three 
score and ten. 

In a recent lecture before the British 
Association for the advancement of 
science, Sir Benjamin Richardson said : 
"As for the term of years man and 
woman ought to live longer than any 
machine of steel and iron that can be 
put together. They have what no ma- 
chine can boast, an engineer living inside 
the premises night and day, in the form 
of that vital force which forever is re- 
pairing our mistakes and patching up 
our blemishes until the materials come 
to pieces. 

It is all rubbish to talk of three score 
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and ten score as marking the proper span 
of human life." 

Were the statements regarding this 
subject, as laid down in the bible, correctly 
understood, it would be seen that the 
overcoming of the "law of the flesh;" 
the overcoming of the law that limits to 
three score and ten, is declared, emphati- 
cally, not only possible, but also that to 
which man should aspire and can accom- 
plish. 

"Job says " If there be a messenger 
with him, an interpreter, one among a 
thousand to show unto man his upright- 
ness, then he is gracious unto him, and 
saith, deliver him from going down to 
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the pit ; I have found a ransom. His 
flesh shall be fresher than a child's ; he 
shall return to the days of his youth." 

It was not the spiritual but the fleshly 
Adam of the " earth, earthy" whose years 
were limited to three score and ten, who 
should suffer sickness, sorrow and death. 

This Adam of the earth (corporeal 
man), was cursed not by a personal God 
but by the law, the spirit of truth, be- 
cause he (man) looked to the physical 
for life, this being a digression from law. 
The declaration of law is always, " if you 
violate, or break away from me, you 
shall suffer." In turning from the spirit- 
ual to the material, law was violated. 
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The overcoming, therefore, of physi- 
cal laws, consists in turning from the 
material back to the spiritual. The 
scriptures are full of promises to the ones 
who "turn" and "acknowledge me." 
"Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; 
who healeth all thy diseases ; who re- 
deemeth thy life from destruction ; who 
crowneth thee with loving kindness and 
tender mercies ; who satisfieth thy mouth 
with good things ; so that thy youth is 
renewed like the eagle's." 

The teaching of Jesus, as laid down in 

the New Testament, from first to last, 

points out this false law under which the 

human family is living ; by which it is 

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" bound," and the call is "awake thou 
that sleepest ! " " It is the spirit that 
quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth noth- 
ing." 

We are told in this book that Jesus 
Christ came to "abolish death" and 
bring " life and immortality to light." If 
the Testament speaks the truth this ut- 
terance must mean just what it says. 
Instead of postponing the benefits to be 
derived from the laws, taught by the 
Master, why not apply them now ? 

Life and mental activities should not 
be measured by years; holding the 
thought, believing it, fearing it, we make 
for ourselves the very law we hate. 
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We have been living in a pond, let us 

open a channel and launch out upon the 

Pacific. 

Fear of Poverty. 

Possibly fear and hatred of poverty 
produce as much, if not more, wretched- 
ness than anything else. Such thoughts 
cannot be harbored without ultimate 
wreckage. They poison and impoverish 
the blood, rendering home in the fleshly 
tenement poor indeed. Everything takes 
the color of the glass through which one 
looks. 

Where the possession of worldly 
goods is small, the attraction to the 
earth is less, and the mind failing to find 
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satisfaction here is more inclined to 
dwell on things of a higher and more 
enduring character. 

Riches are hoarded up, for the gratifi- 
cation of the lower nature- -pride, ava- 
rice and selfishness, at a tremendous 
expenditure of nervous energy, as well 
as neglect of the inner man. 

Conscience, generally, is commanded to 
stand aside; the mind filled with egotism, 
distrust and suspicion. 

Flattered and courted, the man of 
wealth has scarcely a true friend, and 
he knows it. The masses hate him. He 
is a target, alike for the schemer, the 
tramp and the thief. 
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The keen appetite which gives relish 
to the poor man's bread and broth is 
often wanting for the delicious viands of 
the rich man. Sleep, affording rest to 
the laborer, is not seldom uneasy and 
capricious on the luxurious couch of the 
capitalist. 

For every acquisition, either spiritual 
or material, the price has to be paid. 
Surely, the man of money pays the 
price! He gets his reward. 

The rarest possession the world can 
give, may, at the longest, be held but a 
short time, its security depending upon 
unceasing vigilance, leaving little room 
for development of the spiritual faculties, 
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preparatory to taking the next step on 
the ladder of life, when both body and 
baubles are left behind. 

Wealth brings care, fear, anxiety, nei- 
ther time nor inclination to seek out the 
truth of being, the gold of wisdom — the 
only thing upon leaving the earth that 
we can take with us, the only wealth, 
really, that amounts to anything. 

The wisest teacher that ever lived de- 
clared it easier for a camel to go through 
the eye of a needle than for a rich man 
to enter the kingdom of heaven. And 
what after all is the profit " if he gain 
the whole world and lose his own soul?" 

Realizing- the destructive nature of sel- 
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fish, arrogant, stingy and unbrotherly 
thoughts, (usually the concomitants of 
wealth), poverty in this light, does not 
seem so dreadful. 

Is it not, strange though it seems, a 
blessing in disguise. 

Possessing little that attracts to the 
material, we naturally turn for satisfac- 
tion in another direction and are more 
likely to be awakened to the reality of 
the source of all substance. 

Meditating upon things of a higher 
life leads up to where worldly goods 
(that must at last decay) are willingly 
exchanged for the wealth found within, 
— wealth that is lasting: endures forever. 
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Desire is reversed, what concerns us 
most now is not what the outside world 
thinks, but " How do I stand with my 
conscience ? the God within. 

Having- struck beneath the surface, a 
sense, long slumbering - , is awakened ; 
life has a deeper meaning. We have 
found the place of satisfaction, and begin 
to grow in strength, individuality, in- 
dependence ; in harmony with the univer- 
sal life — -in immortality. 

Past Sins. 

We must learn to forget, let go of un- 
pleasant memories. Like dark clouds 
they shut out the sunlight and blight 
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existence. " Let the dead bury their 
dead." Let the past go with the past. 
There is not sufficient power in the uni- 
verse to recall a past act, nor even sup- 
posing it possible, should it be recalled. 
A wrong- deed is the result of ignorance ; 
had we been wiser, we should have pur- 
sued a different course. 

Perhaps this very act was the means 
of driving us to listen to the higher self 
and, ultimately, finding the right way. 

Truth is arrived at, only through mis- 
takes ; through suffering- alone do we 
become unselfish, sympathetic, charitable 
and truly great. 

The child avoids fire from remem- 
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brance of the burn. From the mere 
fact that he suffered as a consequence 
of touching - fire, is he wiser than his 
brother who has not yet experienced 
its effects. 

Grown up children in like manner suf- 
fer from their mistakes, and the one who 
has never suffered is neither strong nor 
wise. 

Digression from law is called sin ; suf- 
fering inevitably is the result, and when 
through experience this has been learned, 
as with the child, the wrong course is 
henceforth avoided, and the right way — 
the law, adhered to. 

Not from fear of the law is it em- 
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braced, but experience having- proven 
misery the certain result of sin, we do 
right because having come to the under- 
standing of the right, we realize that in 
it alone can peace and satisfaction be 
found. 

The one who is good because he is 
afraid to be bad is not anchored in the 
consciousness of the truth, that will either 
sustain youth or prolong life. 

Looking upon mistakes of the past in 
this light, the sad, distorted, dark pictures 
disappear. With Paul we can all say, 
"It was not I that did it, but sin that 
dwelleth in me; it deceived me and slew 
me. 

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The inner self is the true '"I," and in 
making- peace with it, we have found a 
friend indeed, "a very present help in 
time of trouble." 

This is the " I" that never was born, 
never shall cease to be, never was 
naught; but, birthless, and changeless, 

and deathless, shall endure forever, 

dead though the house of it seems. 

"Ye are not bound! the Soul of Things is sweet, 
" The Heart of Being is celestial rest ; 
" Stronger than woe is will: that which was good 
"Doth pass to Better — Best." 

Selfishness is an iron band that must 
be broken. It is spiritual suicide. Turn- 
ing from the source to self cuts off the 

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spiritual supply; it is the part trying to 
separate itself from the whole; the result 
not unlike the branch detaching itself 
from the tree. It is absolutely impossi- 
ble for a selfish person to unfold into a 
realization of the abundance of life; to 
come in touch with the spiritual life that 
will expand his earthly existence and 
renew his activities. 

Iiaugh 

One word for sunlight. Unpleasant, 
gloomy, woe-be-gone subjects should 
not be discussed. It matters not how 
terrible the situation may be, talking 
about it only makes it worse. 
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It disseminates gloom, becomes after 
awhile a disease, and a contagious one 
at that. " It is better to laugh than be 
crying, "far better. 

" Laugh and the world laughs with you; 
Weep and you weep alone." 

By throwing open the windows of 
the soul the sunbeam enters, and well 
we know what its bright rays do for the 
bud and berry. 

The sunny temper where it exists, acts 
like a charm upon the functions of the 
body. It is worry not work that kills. 

The Grecian stories of the laughing 
philosopher who lived to be a hundred 
and twenty years old and of the crying 
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philosopher who died at sixty, show the 
esteem in which the ancients held good 
humor as tending to prolong life. 

Supposing this a fancy, however, the fact 
remains that the sunny tempered man or 
woman is the one who most enjoys life. 

"A contented mind, is a perpetual 

feast." 

Cause of Disease. 

Envy, jealousy, pride, avarice, deceit, 
all selfish thoughts, all hypocritical 
thoughts, all unlovely thoughts, poison 
and impoverish the blood, warp the 
brain, disorganize the nervous system, 
clog circulation, and sooner or later make 
of the body and the physical man a 



wreck. Surely a man's worst enemies 
are they of his own household. 

Again quoting from Sir Benjamin's lec- 
ture : " The secret of happiness is good 
will. No person is well and happy who 
is pained at the sight of useful success 
in others, or who would rather dwell on 
the failures than rejoice in the progres- 
sive careers of other men. 

It is a physiological fact that noth- 
ing- deranges the action of the liver so 
much as a fit of anger, and the phrase 
"jaundiced with envy" has an anatomi- 
cal as well as a moral meaning. 

This agrees with the Buddhist maxim 
" never to despise and never to envy." 
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Without question of doubt, perverse 
and pernicious thoughts are the germi- 
nating cause of all disease and decay. 

Right here is the solution to the prob- ' 
lem which materia medica has never been 
able to solve, viz., the cause of disease. 

The process that leads to the elixir of 
youth is within reach of every one. An 
unswerving adherence to the life of spirit 
will gradually overcome the beliefs of the 
diseased, dying animal nature. 

Science the Stat*. 

Whatever has been accomplished by 
any man at any time may be done by 
another. 

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The ancient Patriarchs, accordine to 
the Bible, lived hundreds of years. 

It is believed by many that there are 
men in India to-day who are centuries 
old. There is nothing miraculous in 
this — nothing more than the supremacy 
of spiritual intelligence over animal 
ignorance. 

Mind is infinite. Mind is life. Mind 
is deathless. Man is mind. All power 
is within man and when conscious of his 
powers he can be zvhal he wills to be. 

The J4oui» has Struek. 

The hour has struck for man. A new 
rung has been reached in the evolution 
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of the race. A new star has appeared, a 
babe is born whose name is Wonderful. 

Henceforth the "old man," with his 
self-made laws, will be left behind and 
the new man will go on progressing, de- 
veloping in knowledge, unfolding facul- 
ties now dormant, recognizingfiner forces, 
higher laws, broadening into larger life 
and more of it, gradually overcoming 
failings and fallacies of physical laws and 
the boundary lines of time. 

Prophecy looked forward to this. 
John, the Revelator, with awakened 
spiritual sense, looking through the mist 
of time into the future, saw the new 
heaven, the new earth, and the new man. 
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He heard a great voice (Truth) out of 
heaven saying: " Behold! the tabernacle 
of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them, and they shall be his people, 
and God Himself (Divine Intelligence) 
shall be with them and be their God. 

" And God shall wipe away all tears 
from their eyes, and there shall be no 
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, 
neither shall there be any more pain: for 
the former things are passed away. 
" And he that sat upon the throne (Sci- 
ence) said, Behold! I make all things 
new. * * * Write: for these words 
are true and faithful. * * * I am 
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and 
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the end. I will give unto him that is 
athirst of the fountain of the water of 
life freely. 

" He that overcometh shall inherit all 
things; and I will be his God, and he 
shall be my son." 

Hetrospeetive and Prospective. 

Standing, as we are on the mountain 
side over whose peak we catch the first 
roseate hue of a new day; then, in imag- 
ination, going back through the starless 
night, till in the fire-mist we find thought 
clothing itself in the atom preparatory to 
its long perilous journey; now asleep in 
the stone, next breathing in the veg- 
etable, slowly moving up into the dream - 
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ing animal, rising in man as it wakes to 
consciousness, a mystery to itself, sur- 
rounded by mystery; confounded, cow- 
ering in fear before the wrathful author 
of its being, lost, wandering through the 
wilderness, then up the dark, tangled 
mountain side, weary and worn; in 
agony, anguish and despair, at last step- 
ping high enough to sight the morning 
star, when with hasty stride it pushes 
on till streaks of light are seen shining 
over the summit. 

And now the thought-atom from the fire- 
mist, leaving behind the mineral for the 
vegetable; the vegetable for the animal; 
the animal for man, guided by the star of 
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science marches on, clothing- itself in 
power, overcoming ignorance, overcom-. 
ing the animal, overcoming weakness, 
sin, pain, disease; overcoming limita- 
tions, overcoming time, yea, overcoming 
the "sting of death" leaves man behind, 
at the summit peak — one with Universal 
Mind, at last victorious- — stands a God. 



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